Table Brazil

Deriving his inspiration from Art Nouveau, Art Deco and the Bauhaus, Shire explores the porous interface between artistic creation and industrial design.

ln the late 1970s, Peter Shire, an American, attracted the attention of Ettore Sottsass with his production of coloured objects with great formal freedom. He invited him to join the Memphis group, which then took on an international dimension. The clean composition of this table results from the assemblage of four geometrical forms that are distinguished by their colour. The object is a testimony to the Memphis aesthetic freed from functionalism, providing decorative redefinitions of standardised industrial objects.